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Summer Cascade™ Wisteria

Blooming in June on new growth, individual flowers are borne on long showy racemes and open as a lovely shade of dark lavender before fading. A beautiful flowering vine which […]

Shining Sensation™ is a blooming machine, with pink funnel-shaped flowers that bloom in May and June and intermittently through summer. Shiny, burgundy foliage appears as though it has been polished […]

Rainbow Sensation® Weigela

Even before the first flowers appear, Rainbow Sensation® will brighten your garden with its attractive, variegated foliage. Dense clusters of soft pink flowers bloom profusely in May, attracting hummingbirds to […]

Flip Side Chastetree

Flip Side® is cloaked in 8-inch, fragrant, deep purple flowers that attract a nonstop parade of pollinators. It’s also a strong rebloomer. Flip Side® got its name because the greyish olive-green leaves […]

Opening Day™ Doublefile Viburnum

Produces perfectly round,baseball-sized, pon-pon flowers about the time its namesake sport opens its season. The compact plant is covered with green-tinted flowers, maturing to white. Its round, corrugated foliage turns […]

Little Lady™ Lilac

In late spring, the dark pink buds open to lilac pink, with a heady fragrance that will tickle your nose! The mature size makes this plant perfect for foundation plantings, […]

Snowdance Japanese Tree Lilac

Although the species tends to flower biennially, Snowdance™ flowers well annually and begins flowering at an earlier age than the species. It has exceptionally heavy bloom with large, fragrant, creamy white […]

Galaxy™ Snowberry

Beautiful as a strand of pearls, the plump, bridal-white berries of Galaxy™ ripen in early fall, adding a show of color throughout autumn and well into winter. The weight of […]

Candy™ Snowberry

For gardeners who are on the lookout for shrubs that provide winter interest after most flowers and leaves are gone, snowberries rate high on the list. Plump, candy-pink berries ripen […]

Pink Sparkler™ Birchleaf Spirea

If you are a fan of Tor Spirea, you will fall in love with Pink Sparkler™. Beautiful pink flowers emerge in early summer and then re-bloom in fall. As an […]